Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
by zionic on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:56PM
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We got an alert from Amazon that if we didn’t stop faking reviews we would be terminated. Given that we have never done so, it was quite a shock to us. I wonder which competitor of ours feels threatened.
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Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
by the-pigeon on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:26PM
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The other than that may be happening is bots building legitimacy.
Like if you want to boost your product with 1,000 fake reviews then you need 1,000 accounts that don't look like bots. Meaning they need to do a lot of different activities so they have a behavior pattern that looks like a real person. Which would include posting other fake reviews.
Of course in Amazon's case they could just require accounts to have purchased the item in question on Amazon to review it. But they must prefer more reviews to making it harder to manipulate reviews using bots.
Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
by SilverRed on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @10:18PM
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None of these limitations work. There are facebook and IM groups set up where real users of Amazon sit and companies offer free products to these people for good reviews.
These users have years of real account history and they really did buy the product. Its just on an external service, the seller refunds the money.